(Outdated) CI/Vaal Pact - Breaking Faces with Deaths Oath (Witch)

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Description

No ES chest with CI is madness you say? I guess we better get all the ES nodes instead!

Suggested Leagues: Default, Hardcore, Anarchy, Onslaught

Passive Skills

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Gems

Chest - Infernal Blow

Infernal Blow

Hits the enemy, converting some of your physical damage to fire damage. If the enemy dies soon after being hit, they will explode, dealing fire damage to nearby enemies. Requires a Sword, Axe, Mace, Staff or Unarmed.


Infernal Blow
Melee Splash

Adds an area of effect splash radius to a single target melee attack.


Melee Splash
Multistrike

Causes you to attack quickly three times with a melee attack. New targets are selected for subsequent attacks if available.


Multistrike
Melee Physical Damage

Increases melee physical damage dealt.


Melee Physical Damage
Melee Damage on Full Life

While you're on full life, melee skills deal increased damage.


Melee Damage on Full Life


Helm - Auras

Hatred

Casts an aura that increases the cold damage of you and your allies.


Hatred
Discipline

Casts an aura that grants energy shield to you and your allies.


Discipline
Anger

Casts an aura that adds fire damage to the attacks of you and your allies.


Anger
Lightning Warp

Casts a delayed teleport to a target destination. When the teleport occurs, lightning damage is dealt to the area around both where the player was and where they teleported to.


Lightning Warp


Boots - Aura/Misc

Grace

Casts an aura that grants evasion to you and your allies.


Grace
Wrath

Casts an aura that adds lightning damage to the attacks of you and your allies.


Wrath
Reduced Mana

Reduces the mana cost of the skill.


Reduced Mana
Enduring Cry

Performs a warcry, adding endurance charges proportional to the number of surrounding enemies. Taunts all nearby enemies to attack the caster.


Enduring Cry


Gloves - Curses/Misc

Temporal Chains

Curses all targets in an area, making time pass more slowly for them. They will move, attack and cast at a reduced speed, and effects on them will expire more slowly.


Temporal Chains
Warlords Mark

Curses all targets in an area. Attacks on the cursed targets will leech life and mana, and killing them will result in more flask charges and a chance to gain an endurance charge.


Warlords Mark
Blood Rage

Adds a buff that deals Chaos Damage over time, while increasing Attack Speed and Life Leech. Killing an enemy while this buff is active refreshes the buff duration, and grants a Frenzy Charge.


Blood Rage
Increased Duration

Increases the duration of the skill.


Increased Duration


Shield - Defensive Totem

Spell Totem

Summons a totem that can cast the attached spell.


Spell Totem
Summon Skeletons

Summons slow moving skeletal minions that decay over time. Does not require a corpse to be consumed.


Summon Skeletons
Faster Casting

Increases the cast speed of magic skills.


Faster Casting


Flasks

Flask Set 1

Granite Flask

Increases Armor by 3,000 for 4 seconds.

Consumes 30 out of 60 charges on use.

Each percentage of quality adds .04 seconds to the duration.


Granite Flask
Granite Flask

Increases Armor by 3,000 for 4 seconds.

Consumes 30 out of 60 charges on use.

Each percentage of quality adds .04 seconds to the duration.


Granite Flask
Sapphire Flask

Temporarily increases maximum Cold Resistance by 10%, and Cold Resistance by 50% for 3.5 seconds.

Consumes 30 out of 60 charges on use.

Each percentage of quality adds .035 seconds to the duration.


Sapphire Flask
Quicksilver Flask

Increases Movement Speed by 40% for 5 seconds.

Consumes 20 out of 50 charges on use.

Each percentage of quality adds .05 seconds to the duration.


Quicksilver Flask
Quicksilver Flask

Increases Movement Speed by 40% for 5 seconds.

Consumes 20 out of 50 charges on use.

Each percentage of quality adds .05 seconds to the duration.


Quicksilver Flask


Bandits

Kill all the bandits in Normal Difficulty - Rewards 1 Passive Skill Point
Help Oak in Cruel Difficulty - Rewards +12% to Physical Damage
Kill all the bandits in Merciless Difficulty - Rewards 1 Passive Skill Point

Gear

I will mention this straight up about this build, it is fairly gear dependant and not cheap. You need Deaths Oath, Meginord's Girdle, Rainbowstride's, well rolled Facebreaker's and average ES shield+helm. Getting quality Infernal Blow and Melee Splash is also highly HIGHLY recommended.

It may seem absurd to have a CI build that doesn't use a chest, but it's more than viable! My current gearset is not even close to top tier, I'm using a 340ES helm and a 410ES shield and currently sitting just over 7k ES. This is also by far the tankiest build I've ever played and the damage output is more than viable with correct gear and CI/Vaal Pact is just plain broken!

Chest
Okay so this build is somewhat built around this chest, its the one and only Deaths Oath!
http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Death's_Oath
When looking to pick one of these chests up I would suggest looking for relatively high attack speed and armour rolls, and either 6S5L yourself or try to pick one up already linked.

Gloves
THE source of your damage is completely supported by the Facebreaker gloves, so the higher the roll you can get the easier it will be for you! Try to get 950+!
http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Facebreaker

Belt
Meginord's: A good chunk of your damage will come from this belt, the rolls don't matter as much, but each extra point of str helps for damage.

Boots
Rainbowstride's are amazing ES boots, try finding a high roll on "% of Block Chance applied to Spells" along with high ES roll.
http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Rainbowstride

Helm
So the helm is a fairly important piece as it's one of only two main ES things you'll be using that are't unique.
I would highly suggest trying to get at least 300+ ES with some resists.

Shield
Okay so here's the first hugely important piece of gear, you NEED a decent shield for this work. Because of all the % increased shield defences/ES nodes having a high ES shield with some resists makes a massive difference! I wouldn't settle for lower than 400 ES with resists, I personally use an Archon Kite as the 24% all res is boosted by passives.

Jewellery
So the final piece to this puzzle of a build is the Rings and Amulet(s). They are a huge source of your damage and you will require + phys damage on them to really be effective in breaking those faces!
For rings try to get around +4-10 on each ring along with decent +ES (around 30). The Amulet try to get +9-18 and again with decent +ES.

What about getting stunned and frozen you say?
I personally haven't had any problems with being chained stunned long enough to lose even 1/4 of my ES, after that it's one punch and instantly regen to full.
Cold damage and being frozen is a pain in the ass, if you want to take the easy route (or if playing HC/Ons) I would just use Dream Fragments and be done with it. For Default and Anarchy you can quite easily get by with a Cold Res flask with extra charges and dispel frozen.

Or my personal favourite is to use an Ample Medium Life Flask of Heat. It has 48 charges and uses 8 each use, that gives you 6 dispels and if you haven't killed the mobs by then you're doing something wrong :)
The charges also recharge incredibly quick while using Warlord's Mark curse!

Gems
In terms of quality on your gems its required in my opinion to get quality on Infernal Blow and Melee Splash, the extra radius is just too amazing to pass up. The rest of the gems can have no quality as it doesn't affect much at all, for some extra damage you can go with quality on your main damage gems like Melee Phys, Damage on Full Life, Multistrike, but that isn't 100% necessary like the main two.

Guide

Leveling
You can level up to the mid 60's any which way you please, you can start of freeze pulsing and transition into a slightly modified Dual Spork build (to follow a rough outline of the Facebreaker build, so its easy to transition).

Leveling is the same old stuff, pick your favourite start and make your way up to Merciless killing the Bandits in Normal, saving Oak in Cruel and killing them all again in Merciless.

Once you hit 62 you can transition from your current build into the CI/Vaal Pact build, going from Dual Spork is probably the easiest. You may also want to wait until 68 to transition over, but it depends on the level requirement on your helm and shield!

You can head into maps with around 5k ES which should be in the early 70's and start the fun.
You'll be running with Hatred, Disc, Grace as the main Auras, and with spare mana you can chuck on Anger and Wrath (not necessary as gives 100-200 dps only). Keep Blood Rage up at all times, you get free life leech and Frenzy Charges from it!. Warlords Mark will be your curse of choice, but Vulnerability is also an option for extra damage.

With my current gear I'm sitting and 4.1k evasion, and 5k armour (17.5k with a granite) and 40% block. My Infernal Blow dps is 10k with 1800 phys, 1900 fire and 1000 cold damage, so reflect or even double/triple reflect is no problem at all!

If you have the spare exalts or even the gear to get this build started I would highly recommend it! It's fun punching things and watching half the screen blow up, and I'm yet to find anything that's come close to killing me!

I'll upload a video of some gameplay when I have some time in the next few days.
Cheers for reading, cya!

Comments

Korbad
Posts: 3
You list this under Hardcore and Onslaught but without stun immunity as CI melee this is suicide.
11 years ago

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